34 Days of back to back snooker begins today !

Arthur Daley

Ding heading out so

Chalk McHugh

Great break this from Grace under big pressure. Quite a few tricky shots. The years first major casualty is last years champion!

Well done David Grace

Joe_ Public

Deserved win. Bringing back memories of his run to the semi here a few years back. Has been playing decent stuff this season to be fair to him.

waynescales1

Ding with the mask on before the pink to clinch the match has even dropped into the pocket. Tiniest bit disrespectful there maybe. Ding’s game miles off at the moment.

Chalk McHugh

For all Ding's talent the glaring ommission on his CV is the World Championship and even only reaching a solitary final is a very poor return.

Tight match here - 5 apiece - between the two Chinese (both top 16) , and they're showing a repeat of the Robertson match on Eurosport

zuutroy

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Tight match here - 5 apiece - between the two Chinese (both top 16) , and they're showing a repeat of the Robertson match on Eurosport

Zifan is a long way from the top 16. Seems Eurosport just aren't allowed show matches if the one they are covering finishes early.

zuutroy

zuutroy wrote: »

Zifan is a long way from the top 16. Seems Eurosport just aren't allowed show matches if the one they are covering finishes early.

:pac: Well, he won anyway... I saw 11 to the left of his name on the livescore screen (best of 11 presumably ) .... Think he's ranked 78th, or thereabouts..

Thanks for setting me straight Z

Couldn't resist the 15/2 on Double G Gerard Greene to beat the Scottish number 1

zuutroy

Gwan Dom

Playing well so far Dale, and gets on the board first, given Trump something to think about,,

Laid a nice snooka there,, Gwan Dom

zuutroy

Fancy Dale could give him a game here.

Brian?

Dale needs to play no miss snooker. I'd love to see it, but i don't think he's capable of it.

zuutroy

Hasn't played a good shot since I posted that!

^^^^

Chalk McHugh

SPACEMAN!

Don't know why they were slagging off the intro music earlier on - I personally think "Bulletproof" by La Roux is a bangin 'choon' :pac: Fun fact - June Ackland from The Bill is La Roux's (female lead singer) mum

waynescales1

Gilbert 1-3 Milkins.

Milkins knocks in a 117, then follows up with a 103. In frame 4 Gilbert did something I have never seen a professional snooker player do before. Wobbles the cue ball in one of the black ball pockets from the break off.

Chalk McHugh

The table looks class on the Eurosport HD. Trump sending Dominick into outer space here!

Chalk McHugh

Judd shpuld have wrapped it up 6-1 only for that kick on the black. To be fair to the Spaceman he has put two impressive frames back to back to reduce the arrears to 5-3.

zuutroy

Bit sick for Dale there. Clearing up to go 5-4 and looking in good form only to miscue in the most bizarre fashion and that was all she wrote.

Just heard Murray say "We always put 'live snooker' ahead of any chat." :mad: What a sickener - I'd prefer 'live snooker' or any 'chat' far more than some bloody repeat from earlier on :rolleyes:

And Judd marches on - little purple patch from Dale just delaying the inevitable.

Reckon they'll soon go back to the chat when Judd's finished with the Beeb :rolleyes:

Arthur Daley

I do like the UK always on in late November into December. Second only to Sheffield for me.

Given the Friday rest day, I'd like to see them use that day, and then bring the final back to two days best of 31.

The semis would then move to Friday best of 17 across two sessions and using the two tv tables.

Leaving the rest of the tournament as is at best of 11.

It would be good to see the longer matches as we saw some cracking long matches at Sheffield this year. And differentiate this tournament from all the others with finals that are best of 17.

Deleted User

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Just heard Murray say "We always put 'live snooker' ahead of any chat." :mad: What a sickener - I'd prefer 'live snooker' or any 'chat' far more than some bloody repeat from earlier on :rolleyes:

And Judd marches on - little purple patch from Dale just delaying the inevitable.

Reckon they'll soon go back to the chat when Judd's finished with the Beeb :rolleyes:

Maybe they'll show this match through to it's conclusion before they show the Trump interview. At least there's that - won't be holding my breath though...

Joe_ Public

Arthur Daley wrote: »

I do like the UK always on in late November into December. Second only to Sheffield for me.

Given the Friday rest day, I'd like to see them use that day, and then bring the final back to two days best of 31.

The semis would then move to Friday best of 17 across two sessions and using the two tv tables.

Leaving the rest of the tournament as is at best of 11.

It would be good to see the longer matches as we saw some cracking long matches at Sheffield this year. And differentiate this tournament from all the others with finals that are best of 17.

If only... It's not distinctive enough from other tournaments for me. I'd like it to go back to exactly how it was in the (glory) days, BO17 from last 32. Don't see it happening anytime soon, though. Don't think the bbc wants it.

Chalk McHugh

So far the tv games have been very one sided. I presume tomorrow at 13.00 we will see Ronnie against Ursenbacher. I liked watching the Swiss when i saw him play as he's a lovely cue action so look forward to a pretty free flowing match.

Other games at 13.00 i'd like would be Jamie Clarke v Kurt Mafflin and a real old tear up between Mark King and Graham Dott.

Then at 19.00 the pick of the bunch for me is Sunni Akani v Mark Williams.

A good days snooker ahead.

zuutroy

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Just heard Murray say "We always put 'live snooker' ahead of any chat." :mad: What a sickener - I'd prefer 'live snooker' or any 'chat' far more than some bloody repeat from earlier on :rolleyes:

And Judd marches on - little purple patch from Dale just delaying the inevitable.

Reckon they'll soon go back to the chat when Judd's finished with the Beeb :rolleyes:

Eurosport have been brilliant the past 5 years for snooker so I'll always cut them some slack.

Arthur Daley

The arguement seems to be that there is a risk of matches finishing early. But how many finals are a blow out these days. We haven't seen a World Championship semi final or final finish with a session to spare for some time now.

Besides other parts of the BBC2 audience would be only too happy if the odd final finished early and they got some time back from the snooker.